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CAMPUS LIFE

LSA student attends ONE program in Washington

NEWS

ACA Ruling University experts react to Supreme Court decision. >> SEE PAGE 2

NEWS

Campaign aims to combat extreme poverty and preventable disease

Tiny Houses Art students collaborate with non-profit to serve A2 homeless community >> SEE PAGE 3 VIRGINIA LOZANO/Daily

Ann Arbor mayor, Christopher Taylor, speaks at the City Council meeting Monday.

OPINION

University funding Performanced-based model ineffective and must change >> SEE PAGE 4

ARTS

XXL fun ‘Magic Mike: XXL’ gives women what they want. >> SEE PAGE 6

SPORTS

Just do it Michigan signs record-high apparel deal with Nike. >> SEE PAGE 12

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Thursday, July 9, 2015

City officials discuss possible changes to snow removal policy Council considers pedestrian safety, sustainability By ALAINA WYGANT Daily Staff Reporter

Snow removal and other topics concerning the environment were discussed at the Ann Arbor City Council meeting Monday night. Resident Robert Gordon, who was awarded Ann Arbor’s Green Fair volunteer of the month award, spoke about local landfill space and ideas on how to make use of it. “There’s going to come a day when we are going to realize that landfill space could be park space, could be places where there’s affordable housing, could be places where there’s retail,” Gordon said. “... we’re wasting it on garbage — most of which is recyclable or compostable. There’s a lot of work to do.” One of the main topics on the meeting’s agenda was the city’s current snow removal policy. The current legislation states that

property owners are required to remove snow more than one inch deep from public sidewalks. If an owner fails to remove it, the city issues a notice to the owner to do so and, if after 24 hours the sidewalk isn’t cleared, the city removes it. Ann Arbor’s Pedestrian Safety and Access Task Force recommended changes to this policy. One of the proposed changes is to require property owners to remove snow even if the snowfall does not reach more than one inch. This change would hold property owners responsible for clearing ice from their sidewalks. Members of council had differing opinions of the proposed policy change while others expressed concern for other aspects of the city’s snow removal ordinance. Councilmember Jane Lumm (I– Ward 2) said she wasn’t comfortable with the policy’s method of warning residents to remove their snow. Lumm said she thought only one warning was not enough and asked other councilmembers what alternatives were available. Lumm said some snow removal contractors and services don’t

remove snow until two inches have fallen. She also said she was concerned that seniors, the disabled, and those who spend time out of the city wouldn’t see the single snow removal warning issued by the city, and would therefore be unable to meet the local snow removal standards and, as a result, be unfairly fined. “It just doesn’t seem reasonable that on a second occurrence a person should be fined $250 to $500 plus costs to remove,” Lumm said. Mike Anglin (D–Ward 5) said there needs to be better legislation for snow removal than the city’s current policy. He argued, because many Ann Arbor residents rent and may be in apartment housing, the responsibility of snow removal should fall on the owner, not the occupant. “I can’t see this as something I’d be willing to take a look at right now and push this obligation onto elderly people and people with limited incomes who then would have to hire people to have this done,” said Mike Anglin. “It’s another type of taxation which I would not like see.” See CITY, Page 3

By ALYSSA BRANDON Summer Managing News Editor

This year, a Wolverine will be heading to Capitol Hill to participate in ONE Campaign, a program that works to help fight extreme poverty and disease in Africa. Sara Isaac, a rising LSA senior, was one of 16 college students selected to serve on the Student Advisory Board of the ONE Campaign and attend the campaign program based in Washington D.C. Each year, ONE Campaign selects students from various campaign chapters located at college campuses across the U.S. to participate in the three-day program. Throughout the program, students collaborate with political leaders, activists and others to plan new campaign programs to implement on college campuses. According to a press release from campaign leaders, this year’s students were selected because of their skills as on-campus organizers around ONE’s mission of ending extreme poverty. They were also selected because of their eagerness to engage with other students and young people to encourage similar activism. In a statement, Laurie Moskowitz, who serves as senior director of U.S. Campaigns, said she was excited to hear fresh ideas from this year’s Student Advisory Board. “ONE’s Student Advisory Board brings together the best and the brightest of ONE’s student activists to provide crucial insight and shape the organization’s campus work,” she said. See ONE, Page 3

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University experts react to Affordable Care Act decision Supreme Court ruling garners generally positive University response By IRENE PARK Daily Staff Reporter

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In wake of the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to uphold a key component of the Affordable Care Act on June 25th, several University experts have shared their generally positive thoughts on the ruling. The court’s ruling confirms that qualified Americans will receive health insurance tax subsidies when they buy their insurance from a federal exchange marketplace. The question before the court was whether individuals could purchase health insurance on the federal exchange marketplace and receive taxpayer subsidies, as the act states that subsidies would be available only to those who purchase insurance on exchange marketplaces “established by the state.” The court agreed the only way the ACA would work is for federal exchange marketplaces to be established for states without their own marketplaces to buy the insurance. Furthermore, the court ruled that individuals who buy their insurance via federal exchanges should receive tax subsidies. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote in the majority opinion that Congress’ intention was to improve health insurance. “Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them. If at all possible we must interpret the Act in a way that is consistent with the former, and avoids the latter,” Roberts wrote. In his dissent, Justice Scalia voiced his concern that

the Supreme Court is rewriting laws and preferentially upholding certain laws. “This Court, however, concludes that this limitation would prevent the rest of the Act from working as well as hoped,” Justice Scalia wrote. “So it rewrites the law to make tax credits available everywhere. We should start calling this law SCOTUScare.” Assistant Law Prof. Nicholas Bagley responded to Scalia’s dissent in the Los Angeles Times. He wrote that the court ruling did not rewrite the law, but rather read the law as a whole. “It’s just that reading the law as a whole — keeping in mind what it aims to accomplish and how it goes about accomplishing it — is the right way to figure out what those words mean, not blinkered literalism,” Bagley said. “As the chief justice rightly appreciated, the broader statutory context thus confirmed that Congress could not have meant what, taken out of context, it seems to have said. That’s not rewriting the law. That’s reading it.” A. Mark Fendrick, University professor in the department of Internal Medicine and the department of Health Management and Policy, said the court ruling allows people who are taking advantage of the healthcare system under the ACA to still receive tax subsidies, but did not necessarily make the health insurance system better. “The court ruling kept things the same,” Fendrick said. “It’s not like people got anything better by the court ruling. What we did in my opinion is that we avoided a near disaster.” Fendrick added the ACA has room for improvement, particularly in ensuring patients get high-quality services for what they are paying for their health insurance. “We still need to appreciate See ACA, Page 3

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Bentley Library compiles University history In preparation for bicentennial, researchers create bibliography

In honor of the University’s upcoming bicentennial in 2017, the Bentley Historical Library is compiling a bibliography of stories, histories, photographs and other

artifacts that are representative of the University’s past. The contents of the bibliography are accessible to the public online and include everything from histories written about the University to photographs of the first football team. Bentley archivists are currently looking to expand the fiction section of the work, which either includes or lightly alludes to the University. In 1936, Wilfred B. Shaw, then director of the University Alumni Association started the bibliography. Archivists at the University

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ONE From Page 1

The council scheduled a working session for this fall to work out the details of the snow removal ordinance. Council also addressed resolutions concerning sustainability. One resolution approved by council confirmed a contract with the Ecology Center of Ann Arbor, a local organization focused on environmental sustainability, to educate children in Ann Arbor and Dexter public schools about recycling. Members of council discussed the importance of using Ann Arbor tax revenue to educate Dexter children: the water from Dexter comes to Ann Arbor, polluted or clean. Councilmember Sabra Briere (D–Ward 1) asked a representative from the Ecology Center to confirm that the education of Dexter schoolchildren was meant to benefit Ann Arbor’s environment. “We could provide this education only in Ann Arbor classrooms, but we wouldn’t be able to address the impact other communities have on our drinking water if we focused only on providing education in the city of Ann Arbor,” Briere said. “Our ability to collaborate with the Dexter Public School system to provide a small intervention and educational program in their second-grade classrooms is an asset for the city and benefits the city — correct?” said Briere.

“We’re really excited for this year’s talented Student Advisory Board members to bring their ideas to Washington.” Isaac currently serves as leader of the University’s chapter of the ONE Campaign, and worked with fellow campaign members to gain Senate co-sponsorship for the Electrify Africa Act, a resolution that could bring electricity to 50 million people living in Sub-Saharan Africa if passed. As a member of the advisory board, Isaac, who also served on the board from 2013-2014, will participate in a meeting with members of Congress at Capitol Hill to discuss the resolution. In an e-mail to the Daily, Isaac said she was thrilled to find out she was chosen to serve on the board again. “It was incredible to discover that I had been selected to serve on the SAB again,” she said. “Lobbying senators on Capitol Hill is extremely gratifying, and having the opportunity to do that is pretty awesome.” She also said she hopes to use her experiences to educate the University community more about poverty and disease in Africa. “The number of people living in extreme poverty (on less than US $1.25 a day) has halved since 1990, thanks largely to organizations like ONE,” she said. “I hope that serving on the SAB gives me the tools I need to help remove the greatest barriers to Africa’s development and prosperity, like lack of electricity, which trap hundreds of millions of people in extreme poverty. I’m excited to educate Michigan’s students and faculty about issues

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have recently picked up the project in preparation for the upcoming bicentennial. Brian Williams, the lead Bicentennial Archivist, said the contents of the bibliography include histories and case studies that James J. Duderstadt, president of the University from 1988 to 1996, wrote, as well as others, such as Shaw. Some of these works include “The Making of the University of Michigan” by Howard Peckham, Margaret Steneck and Nicholas Steneck, and “History of the University of Michigan” by Elizabeth Ferrand.

Bicentennial archivists have found a total of 2,500 artifacts that relate to the University, but Williams said they are still looking for more. Williams added that, while the bibliography itself may not be exciting, the books and stories included in it are. “You’d find some really interesting little anecdotes,” Williams said. “By today’s standards, student life was hard. At first, students lived in the dorm, had to cut their own wood, and classes started at five in the morning. A bell would wake everyone up to begin studying.”

Williams added that hazing was a significant part of student life at the University. Some of it was sports-minded, but in other cases they’d kidnap students,” Williams said. “... a lot of freshmen would get their hair cut. We have scrapbooks that have snippets of hair from students.” In addition to the campus atmosphere, Williams said the history of library cataloguing is starkly different from its present state, said Williams, who noted the various changes in research technology. See HISTORY, Page 8

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The United States Army Field Band and Soldiers’ Chorus performs as part of the Ann Arbor Summer Festival Sunday.

like energy poverty.” Moskowitz said the efforts of college student activists are vital in ending extreme poverty. “College students bring a powerful and passionate voice to the global fight against extreme poverty and have made a historic difference in persuading American lawmakers to confront some of the world’s most difficult challenges,” she said.

ACA From Page 2 that there are over 10 million people who are uninsured,” Fendrick said. “One of the principal reasons that people remain uninsured is they find that the health plans that are available to them are not deemed to be worthwhile expenditure, and in fact they think they are better off just paying the penalty.” Fendrick directs the University’s Center for Value-Based Insurance Design, which is dedicated to removing financial barriers to essential, high-quality clinical services. The insurance design is based on “clinical nuance,” which acknowledges some medical services are more

important than others. “Instead of the consumers paying the same out-of-pocket for every diagnostic test, every drug and every doctor visit, we would like to see health plans that actually have low or no out-of-pocket costs,” Fendrick said. “As a doctor, I would like a health plan to send out-of-pocket expenses to patients based on how much healthier the service would make them, as opposed to how much it costs.” Several state representatives also voiced support for the ACA ruling. Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (Mich.–12) applauded the court ruling in a statement on the day of decision. See ACA, Page 8

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The state legislature must review its higher education funding

n Tuesday, Oakland University announced it would increase tuition by 8 percent starting in the fall semester. The drastic tuition increase is well above the state-imposed cap of 3.2 percent that colleges must meet in order to receive their performancebased aid from the state. OU joins Eastern Michigan University — which increased its tuition 7.8 percent in mid-June — in being the only colleges in Michigan to forfeit their performance-based aid by increasing tuition well above the cap. In 2013, Wayne State University similarly increased its tuition by 8.9 percent. These exuberant increases help to highlight inefficiencies in the current higher education funding system. The state legislature must alter the performance-based aid in order to ensure students are able to access the education they deserve. Gov. Rick Snyder introduced the performance-based education funding system when he first took office in 2011. The budgetary system is popular throughout the United States, with 34 states utilizing it in some form because it aims for schools to graduate as many students as possible, as efficiently as possible. In Michigan, higher education appropriations makes up 1.7 percent of the School Aid Fund and performance-based funding makes up about 5 percent of the aid schools receive from the School Aid Fund. The model was introduced by supporters who believe performance-based funding will motivate schools to adhere to

state standards and practices in higher education. However, according to students and faculty at OU, WSU and EMU, the current performance-based aid isn’t always beneficial to the higher education cause. WSU President M. Roy Wilson criticized the performance funding system, claiming that it penalizes the university for having a more inclusive enrollment policy and doing a large amount of research. Furthermore, students from EMU are worried about how they will be able to pay for the increased cost their colleges now require from their students. Performance-based funding clearly isn’t working

if universities are willing to forgo the funding to obtain enough money to provide the necessary resources to maintain operations. This “all-or-nothing” mentality of this funding system has forced universities’ hands to burden their students unnecessarily. If a performance-based model is going to continue, colleges must be rated against similar institutions; WSU caters to a different type of student than OU or the University. There needs to be understanding and accommodations when it comes to funding. If the state of Michigan wants to reward based on performance, it should look at the bigger picture.

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n July 4, as people celebrated the United States’ Independence Day and I watched the smoke settling from the fireworks of the night sky, I could not stop thinking about the fog that looms over the nation. Nine members of the Emanuel African Methodist RABAB Episcopal Church JAFRI in South Carolina were shot and killed on June 17 by Dylann Roof. In the aftermath, many were unsure of what to make of the situation. Many people were quick to blame guns in order to spark another debate over gun laws. Media outlets called for a greater awareness of mental health awareness. Many sigh and claim, “We may never know why he did it.” Others question whether labeling it is important or not because it will have no effect on the severity of Dylann Roof’s punishment. But, in order to properly condemn such acts and keep them from happening again, we must not hesitate to call it by its name. This was an act of domestic terrorism. The FBI defines domestic terrorism as “primarily occurring on American soil and involving acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law; Appear intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping.” Though it’s clear that this act was dangerous to human life, the question seems to be whether or not it appears intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, and ongoing investigations suggest that others may have known about his plans. “I have no choice,” Roof wrote. “I am not in the position to, alone, go into the ghetto and fight. I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country. We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing anything

but talking on the internet. Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.” This attack was symbolic. It was political. The church that Roof attacked has historical significance to the Black community, as it has been attacked multiple times in the past. Witnesses claim he said he came to the church “to shoot Black people.” Roof is a white supremacist. He is a racist. There is a picture of him wearing badges linked to apartheid Africa and another picture of him burning an American flag. Based on his Internet postings and his drunken comwments to one of his friends, he wanted to start a “race war.” He wore a badge linked to apartheid Africa. He burned the American flag. He wanted to start a race war. And yet, we still question whether he should be called a terrorist. There should be the same outrage and response from over this attack as there would over any attack against Americans incited by such hate. Too often we are stuck in this idea that only foreign terrorism or Islamic terrorism are what Americans should be afraid of, but the rise of this racial climate starting in our own backyards is completely ignored. If this had been a person of color, they would have been called a thug or a terrorist in a second. Instead, former FBI agent Jonathan Gilliam told CNN he most likely had a mental illness and Sen. Lindsey Graham said he was “one of those wacked out kids.” We, as a nation, are going down a very dangerous path if we fail to realize these disparities and how far this has gone. If Donald Trump, a U.S. presidential candidate, can stand on national television and claim that Mexican immigrants are rapists and bump up to second in the Republican candidacy, there’s a problem much greater than one lone wolf. Racism is still deeply rooted in this nation. We put in pen that all men were created equal 228 years ago. It’s about time we start acting like it.

We put in pen that all men were created equal 223 years ago. It’s about time we start acting like it.

— Rabab Jafri can be reached at rfjafri@umich.edu.

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How Jesus became the Gingerbread Man

nlike previous pieces, this week’s column isn’t really about the physical place of Ann ELIJAH Arbor. After SPARKMAN all, I’ve only just returned from a few weeks absence. So, sorry, no profile of the river, or Pita Kabob, or WCBN or any of my other favorite places that I believe everyone should run to this instant. This week’s column is about the more abstract Ann Arbor we take with us, for better or for worse. My charge is that a city lives inside of its people too. That its bounds are extended by the travails of its goers in a structure not all that different from the way the 25 books you have checked out from the school’s library extend the branch to your basement desk, right next to the beer pong table that hasn’t been cleaned in a few weeks. Ann Arbor was with me this weekend because it is a state of mind now intertwined with my own; Maize and Blue walk with me. While many of you were watching women’s soccer for the first time, I was glued to Wimbledon. The tournament is magical to me. Growing up, Roger Federer on a Sunday morning in July was just as good as Old Saint Nick crawling down my chimney in December. 2008, anyone? With that said, this past weekend was only the first week of play which means, interestingly enough, that Wimbledon isn’t scoring all that much Big Network time. If you wanted to watch many of the matches, you had to go to the Tennis Network via your cable or satellite. Due to the lack of Big Corporate Sponsors lined up at its door for advertisement time, Tennis Network’s commercial selections are absolutely appalling, or at least I think so. Much akin to 4 a.m. infomercials, they’re headlined by

combo packs consisting of 10 disks featuring 200 songs from the Golden Age of country music and blenders that have the power to blend up a whole box of hammers if need be. They usually contain one to two washed up celebrities, either retired or unemployed. Most have the same overexcited narrative male voice over that so obviously doesn’t believe that this is the greatest deal since The Chop House accidentally printed a poster for all-you-can-eat filet mignon. One in particular was the worst. Brett Favre was modeling a back brace called Copper Fit, which is marketed toward those afflicted by aching vertebrae. The commercial starts with a shot of Favre, the retired Packers and too many other teams quarterback, loading hay into a white four by four, you know, because he does that. Why is this all important again? Because I wouldn’t shut up after I saw it. I needed to analyze it. I spoke at least three essays out loud to the chagrin of my sisters and cousins and girlfriend during a holiday vacation. “Sick consumerist ploy,” “Harsh capitalist undertones achieved via manipulative commercial rhetoric.” I used the words “juxtaposition” and “narrative framework” in an academic sense at least five and a half times, which is five and a half times more than I would ever like to. I’m trying to say that I read that commercial in my parent’s living room on a lake under the lapis lazuli dome of the crystal sky like Ulysses in Hatcher’s Reference room, pencil in hand, annotations bookmarked, and it kind of scared me, because I’m realizing I’m changing. I’m no longer new to school; so much of it has sunk in and it’s starting to show. Sometimes it feels like the shrub of your brain is being tenuously carved out by a Maize and Blue figure holding electric trim-

I highly recommend everyone engage the opinion of a child at least once a week; they are more creative than you.

mers. Then there’s you, mouth agape, watching from your front window in horror of your own lack of control. On the drive home Monday morning, I listened to the new Courtney Barnett record (which everybody should go buy from Wazoo tomorrow) and thought a lot about the fabulous lyric on her song “Pedestrian at Best” which goes: “Give me all your money and I’ll make some origami, honey.” My episode of intense critique happened all over again. I had to “unpack” (ugh, that word) the song and discuss its cultural and political context. What is she really saying about monetary value? What does her saying what she said really say about the tensions between value systems in society? What am I even talking about? Listen to the music. Just lean back, watch the film. Here, have a Cheeto. Indeed, the whole venture of leaving school and being around things that aren’t your school or your city can be tiring and confusing. This is the reason why I value one family member

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of mine in a very particular way: my youngest sister Sophia, age nine. She is a very, very funny, intelligent, loveable baby. I highly recommend everyone engage the opinion of a child at least once a week; they are more creative than you. I spent most of the holiday weekend doing what my Grandpa Sparkman would dub ‘recreating’ with my little sisters, their friends and my family. This included things like shooting pool, gambling and playing euchre, ping pong, football and a simple game called Tiki Toss that my mother became acquainted with on the beaches of Vero. The girls’ favorite thing to do is a drawing game called Telestrations. (Everyone should go buy this from somewhere that’s not the Walgreen’s on State Street). The quick logistics: up to eight people can play at once; each player gets their own dry-erase packet filled with eight blank sheets; the game starts when each player picks a card from the middle deck with the name of an object on it; each player must then write the name of the object on page one and then attempt to

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draw the object on page two; each player then passes the booklet to the person on the left who must guess what the object is; the cycle is repeated until the booklet is full. You can see how the game can be entertaining and silly, objects usually end up something far different than their original identity. The card I drew was ‘Monastery.’ I tried my very best to draw Dostoyevsky’s Alyosha Karamazov and then passed the book, hilariously enough, to my little sister who, after I peeked to see, wrote down, ‘A very Scary Jesus.’ After six little girls’ drawings it made its way to my girlfriend on the right of me. She guessed, ‘A Gingerbread Man in a puddle,’ which I then had to draw. And I’m sure there is much to think about here, from plenty of vantage points, but it was one of the rare moments this weekend when I didn’t. I just laughed with all of my company and drew a curvy ginger man with a big old bite mark taken out of his side, all the while stooped upon a watery spot. — Elijah Sparkman can be reached at essp@umich.edu.

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MOVIE REVIEW

‘Magic Mike XXL’ gives women what they want Stripper flick treats women as the worthy audience they are

ROC NATION

Murdering fashion and kidknapping wives

‘BBHMM:’ don’t kill me, Rihanna

By CHLOE GILKE Managing Arts Editor

A lot of women love “Magic Mike.” During its first five days in theaters, “Magic Mike XXL” played to an audience comAposed primarily of females — 96 Magic percent of the people seeing Mike XXL the film over the Warner Bros. holiday weekend were women. If Rave & Quality 16 the movie made $27.1 million and the average ticket price was $8.00, then 3.39 million people spent their Fourth of July gazing at Channing Tatum in a thong. Just 140,000 of these people were men. This statistic is astounding, but it makes sense. Anyone can enjoy the movie, but “Magic Mike” is made for the ladies. “Magic Mike XXL” truly exalts its female viewers, providing an all-encompassing experience of fun and pleasure that isn’t available anywhere else in cinema. In this film, women are presented as queens who deserve to be listened to, loved and respected, and men should act according to a woman’s needs. For 115 minutes, “Magic Mike XXL” fulfills its duty to its royal audience, and puts on a banging performance that effectively satiates its viewers’ desires. “Magic Mike XXL” follows former stripper Mike Lane (Channing Tatum, “Dear John”) as he reunites with his old friends for one last road trip to a stripping convention in Myrtle Beach. The script is more ensemble-driven than the original “Magic Mike,” and the road movie structure gives the movie an excellent opportunity to explore its supporting characters with greater depth. Each member of the “Kings of Tampa” emerges more fully formed, each

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”Is little Mike XXL?” I whisper under my breath...

with his own goals, ambitions, sense of humor and dance moves. Without Dallas (Matthew McConaughey, “True Detective”) managing their performances, the guys also learn to find their own joy in stripping — they don’t want to be firemen and cops anymore. Stripping is their preferred method of selfexpression, so crucial to their identities that one performer even says he’d keep doing it even if he got rich and didn’t need the money. “Magic Mike XXL” ’s choreography is especially creative in the way that each guy brings his personality into his performance. The new moves aren’t always perfect (unless, of course, it’s anyone’s fantasy to see Matt Bomer sing a D’Angelo song while humping the f loor), but on the whole, the choreography is sexy and innovative. “Magic Mike XXL” also has a solid grasp on its inherent campiness. Many of the actors, including Tatum, Gabriel Iglesias and Donald Glover, are natural comedians, and their comfort with the movie’s sillier material shows. It’s easy to forget that the original “Magic Mike” was actually a very depressing movie, with heavy themes of corrupted innocence, addiction and failure. “XXL” is a better movie for leaving behind all the sad stuff and for allowing Channing Tatum to reveal to the audience that his drag queen name would be “Clitoria Labia.” If “Magic Mike XXL” is tasked with providing a pleasurable experience for the

audience, it’s only fitting that the movie is actually pleasurable to watch. Among “XXL” ’s greatest additions is Mike’s ex-f lame Rome (Jada Pinkett Smith, “Gotham”), who now runs a prestige strip club in Savannah. The character was originally supposed to be played by Jamie Foxx, but Smith brings so much to the role that it’s impossible to imagine anyone else pulling it off. Her chemistry with Channing Tatum smolders, and the monologues she delivers to introduce her strippers engage audiences in the strip club and in the movie theater. She reinforces the movie’s feminist themes by her insistence that everyone in the room is a beautiful “queen” to be worshipped. When she addresses the the room about what kind of man women want, Rome speaks with the confidence of a circus ringleader and the pathos of a best friend. It’s no surprise that only 140,000 men saw “Magic Mike XXL” during its opening weekend. The film embodies, quite clearly, what women want — women want a lot of things. Like Rome says, women want someone who listens to them and wants to please them. Women want to be treated like a worthy audience and enjoy the same sexy material that men can find in pretty much any movie today. “Magic Mike XXL” makes enormous strides in gender-equal film sexuality, and it accomplishes all this while staying fun, silly and always sexy.

To be honest, it’s rare that I ever watch music videos. I find most are trite and not worth the three or four minutes they A+ took away from my life Bitch Betto watch them ter Have (I’m looking at you, Nick- My Money elback). Even Rihanna for my favorite artists, it usu- Roc Nation ally still takes a bit of chatter around their latest videos for me to take a look. That’s why “Bitch Better Have My Money” took me by such surprise. The project is almost less of a music video and more a short film; it’s seven minutes long. Going in, I had my fingers crossed that the seven minutes would be worth my time, but I didn’t have high hopes. I was wrong. “BBHMM” is a masterpiece. The plot of the video surrounds Rihanna and two friends (fellow gang members?) who kidnap “your wife” and put her “in the backseat of my brand new foreign car.” Given the lyrics, it’s pretty obvious this woman is the “wife” of the “bitch,” but as the whole video centers on Rihanna torturing this woman, you can’t help but start to think this bitch really owes Rihanna some big fucking bucks. Where “BBHMM” really excels is making you forget those lyrics by the seriously grotesque actions committed by Rihanna and her friends. They tie the wife up with rope, naked and upside down, and swing her like a pendulum

from the ceiling; they force drugs and alcohol down her throat; they (SPOILER ALERT here and below) drown her in a pool whilst they have a pool party and flirt with the sheriff. This is all so enthralling that when, at the end, the video flashes back to the husband the wife kissed goodbye in the morning and moves into Rihanna fingering knives with him tied up in front of her, it’s genuinely surprising that he is, in fact, the “bitch,” and, possibly even more surprising, her accountant. The video ends with Rihanna covered in his blood, lying naked (worth watching the video for, even if the rest had been bad) on top of the trunk she originally kidnapped the woman in, which is now filled with money. TL;DR version: This video is truly terrifying and completely captivating for the entire seven minutes. You probably won’t be able to watch it again for at least 24 hours because you’ll be so thoroughly disturbed. The true genius, though, is that this video really adds something — a layer of depth, of plot, intrigue and even of social commentary — to the song, which is what I find lacking in most music videos. Although we all know Rihanna has seen and been through some shit, I highly doubt she is actually a blood-thirsty killer. With “BBHMM,” Rihanna reminds us that music is a form of expression, and we all have that tiny part in us that is just a cold-hearted bitch that wants and will get her money at any cost. She’s playing a role that’s not herself, a party-girl or anything else typical of the the pop music landscape, in typical Rihanna fashion. And that’s why we love her.

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MUSIC COLUMN

Vince Staples, Kacey Musgraves and the art of storytelling

wo of the best albums of 2015 so far have come out in the past few weeks, and I’m probably one of the few people who loved both of them. This has been a fantastic month for music of all genres. Besides ADAM Miguel’s THEISEN groundbreaking Wildheart we’ve heard fantastic new releases from Kacey Musgraves and Vince Staples, two fast-rising stars in country and hip hop, respectively. It might seem odd to see Musgraves and Staples in the same sentence, because their music doesn’t even seem to inhabit the same world. But I wanted to write about them both in the same column today because, even though their genres and aesthetics are wildly different, as I’ve been listening to their albums, I’m finding that I like each one for strangely similar reasons. Both of these records are great because their artists use songwriting as a way to represent their cultures and bring you into their worlds. For me, Vince Staples’s Summertime ’06 was a hotly anticipated release. The 21-yearold has come up on a wave of hype after associations with Mac Miller and Odd Future, with Summertimemarking his official debut release. Clams Casino and the now-legendary No I.D. do their part on production by throwing swirling dark clouds over every track, but Staples owns this record alone with his words and voice. Much like Kendrick Lamar on good kid, m.A.A.d city, Staples takes his introduction to a mass audience as an opportunity to recreate the streets from which he came. But while Lamar colored the bleak violence of Compton with huge, radio-ready choruses and songs that were legitimately fun to listen to, Staples sounds like he’s rapping in an isolated post-apocalyptic wasteland.

These aren’t party anthems; they’re sober reflections and un-sugarcoated truths. Staples creates the scenes of his youth with an astoundingly mature touch. As Shayan Shafii wrote last week, Staples takes a page from guys like 2Pac and Kendrick by playing the survivor role and telling the stories of his friends who didn’t make it out. Staples details almost all of the struggles that face Black men growing up in the ’hood — police, racism, poverty, violence and drug addiction. He grapples with his newfound status, with being the rich outsider in his neighborhood and playing shows to white crowds while knowing how little has changed where he’s from. This record is not an enjoyable, breezy listen, but it contains valuable insights about American life that everyone should hear. On the other hand, while I was ready to hear Summertime ’06 the day it came out, I count myself as a member of the notorious “anything but country” music fan clique. So I’ll admit that Kacey Musgraves was nowhere near my radar until soon after her sophomore majorlabel release, Pageant Material came out a few weeks ago. And the easy explanation for why she seemed to very suddenly reach my ears is because Musgraves doesn’t sound like modern country music. She’s found acceptance in indie-rock and hipster circles because her acoustic arrangements and quieter reflections are a far cry from the booze-and-chicks anthems of guys like Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan. Any record with small acoustic arrangements and vocal-heavy songs is going to be judged primarily on its lyrics, and Musgraves has plenty of great ones. Her songs range from downhome perkiness (“Cup of Tea”) to quietly, lovingly reflective (“Late to the Party”), but they all undeniably have Musgraves’ personal stamp of self-deprecation and trail blazer mentality. There’s an obvious twang in practically every note, but fans of indie singer-songwriters should never be too uncomfortable,

as Musgraves’ warmth and wit should affect you even if you’re strictly a hardcore hip-hop head. It’s been weird for me, alternating between the two of these albums since I discovered them, because it’s hard to imagine two works of art more culturally or sonically divergent. Though commercial country music does owe a certain debt to hip-hop, Musgraves and Staples are both operating outside their genres’ modern radio sounds. Musgraves is acoustic, traditional and timeless, with her work serving as a callback to fierce iconoclastic country personalities of old while also creating a new, relevant one for today’s world. Staples, meanwhile, has made an album almost completely bereft of the glamour, opulence and escapism that a lot of radio hip hop plays up. This is the last album you would ever expect to be called Summertime — Future’s hook on “Señorita” is the brightest things ever get, and even that sounds like a ghostly approximation of Future’s typical all-out energy. But even though they both stay away from certain genre clichés, Musgraves and Staples songs are fiercely proud to represent The South and South Central LA, respectively, and I can’t imagine two more different places in America for an artist to come from. Occasionally, though, Musgraves and Staples fall into the worst traps of their styles of music. A couple of the obvious singles on Musgraves album (“Biscuits” and “Family Is Family”) are wall-to-wall filled with the most clichéd down-home sayings you can imagine (like “I burned my own damn finger poking someone else’s fire”). The lines are cute and old-school on their own, like something your grandma might say, but all together they can come off as pandering and incongruous with the rest of <Pageant Material. Staples, for his part, can’t quite acquit himself of mainstream hip-hop misogyny by including women in his narrative only as nameless “bitches” and “hoes.” Staples probably deserves a pass here because he’s expertly recreating a world he inhabited

when he was only an immature 12 years old, but in general, I’ve been wishing since To Pimp a Butterfly for a major hip hop record to tell stories of “life in the ’hood” from a woman’s perspective. However, the onus shouldn’t be on Staples to deliver that — and I’m glad it’s not, because Staples really isn’t good at telling women’s stories (see the at-least-eyebrow-raising second verse of “Surf,” in which he seems to be guilt-tripping a young girl choosing to have an abortion). But obviously, none of these flaws come anywhere near sinking their respective records. I love both of them, even if they sound weird back to back. Musgraves has gone back to the past to create a new model for a 21st century country music star with her reflective, independent and feminist melodies, while Staples has fearlessly embraced his role as fearless social critic, philosopher

and torch-bearer in a chaotic and uncertain world — both incredible feats for artists still in the early stages of their careers. But both of these records are especially great, regardless of genre or where they come from, because of the bare humanity laid out in each of them. Neither Musgraves nor Staples is perfect — and, well, you’re delusional if you expect them to be — but they’re both sharing their personal stories. If an artist simply has the courage to invite you into his or her world, that deserves respect; but if he or she does it with as much intelligence and skill as Musgraves and Staples, it demands attention. Even if you normally never listen to their style of music, give Musgraves and Staples a shot and step into their worlds. Theisen is now reconsidering country music. To stop him, e-mail ajtheis@umich.edu

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ACA From Page 3 “The rejection of King v. Burwell by a vote of 6-3 sends a loud, strong message across this nation,” Dingell said. “Healthcare is a right, not a privilege. Bottom line: today’s decision is a victory for working families across this country.” Sen. Gary Peters (D—Mich.) also applauded the ruling in his statement. “The intent of the Affordable Care Act has always been crystal clear: all Americans should have access to affordable health insurance, regardless of what state they live in,” Peters said. “Eliminating these tax credits would have created a catastrophe for the nation’s health care system, taking away affordable health insurance from millions of families and leading to skyrocketing premiums.” Michigan is one of the states that did not establish a statebased exchange marketplace for insurance and relies on the federal marketplace. Under the Court’s ruling Thursday, Michigan residents would be able to receive tax credits from the federal government. In 2014, 184,297 Michiganders were using the federal exchange marketplace and received $13.2 million in rebates. As of March 2015, 293,843 Michigan residents were covered through the federal exchange. Rick Pollack, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association, told U.S. News and World Report although the court ruling cleared a hurdle for the ACA, hospitals across the nation still face other issues, especially persuading state legislatures to expand their Medicaid programs to low-income adults — people under 65 and 138 percent below the federal poverty level. Under the ACA, hospitals face

selves online is just a quantum leap forward.” Williams said those interested in viewing the books can read them online or even print them with Shapiro’s Expresso Book Machine, which quickly prints up to 300-page manuscripts. On the Bentley Historical Library’s website is additional information about the bicentennial, the history of the University and links to digital copies of the books included in the bibliography.

payment cuts that will add up to approximately $36 billion over a decade, money that was supposed to be offset by states’ Medicaid expansion. Currently, 21 states do not have the Medicaid expansion, and hospitals in these states will be hit the hardest by the payment cuts. As support for the Medicaid expansion, a new study from the University’s Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation looked at how well the expansion of Medicaid is working to reduce the burden of uncompensated care on hospitals in Connecticut. Connecticut was the first state to add low-income adults to the Medicaid program in April 2010. Sayeh Nikpay, a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley’s School of Public Health and an alumna of the University’s School of Public Health, was one of the authors who conducted the study. “This paper shows that when you provide coverage to people who don’t have it, hospitals have to absorb less of the cost of uncompensated care — both charitable care and from unpaid bills,” Nikpay said. “I hope our results will reinvigorate the discussion in state legislatures about expansion.” The team plans to study Michigan’s Medicaid expansion next. The state of Michigan has a larger Medicaid population than Connecticut. Rackham student Peter Haviland-Eduah, who was in Washington D.C. for a summer internship when the Supreme Court decision on Obamacare was announced, wrote in an e-mail to the Daily that the discussion surrounding the ACA is especially important for students entering the workforce. “As (students) enter into an economy that is still recovering, getting a job is not a guar-

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community at that specific location has since been abandoned due to issues concerning legality, practicality, and previous proposals for developing that property. The wake of Kunselman’s push, however, has many community members considering the option of incorporating tiny houses into the city in the future. Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor, who was opposed to Kunselman’s proposal, said that 415 W. Washington may not be the right location for the project and that the timing is not be the best for this experiment.

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Street artist, David Zinn, creates one of his signature chalk drawings on the diag Sunday during the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

meric material. They could now control the response of these materials by implementing various cutting patterns. Kirigami is especially useful in stretchable conductors because the integrity of the material does not have to be compromised — in other words, the chemistry or composition of the material remains unaltered. The method also helps diminish uncontrolled failure by predetermining points of strain in the material, allowing for predictability of the elec-

trical conductivity. While other research focuses on a materials approach, what sets the Kotov group’s research apart is that it combines engineering material and geometry, allowing for the predictability of the deformation of the material. “We are quite excited by initial experimental data,” Dr. Kotov said. “It means that instead of the dry methods of designing these conductors, we now have a really robust engineering computational tool which can be cou-

pled with the composites and all together this creates a foundation for designing and mechanics of conductivity.” The advent of effective stretchable conductors has the potential to be a game-changer in the world of electronics. According to Shyu, an obvious path for stretchable conductors is flexible electronics, such as batteries and sensors. “Many people are jumping on the idea of structuring deformation,” Shyu said.

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Jim Minick offered to resign, but Jim Hackett refused it By ZACH SHAW Summer Managing Sports Editor

After being arrested on suspicions of drunk driving May 8 and consequentially being suspended from his post as associate athletic director for football on May 13, Jim Minick felt that resigning was the natural next step. Interim Athletic Director Jim Hackett disagreed. “Jim Minick submitted his resignation and I refused it,” Hackett said. “This is a man who served seven tours of duty (in the Marines).

Selflessness is a way I would describe him. He got thousands of emails, most of them from people who served in war with him, urging him to soldier through this. “He and I had deep conversations about it, and I was convinced this is a guy who will learn from this mistake.” On the night of his arrest, Minick crashed his vehicle into a ditch on Airport Boulevard and State Street just south of Ann Arbor. The 51-year-old refused a breathalyzer test at the time, but blood tests would later reveal his

blood-alcohol content level was 0.185, well above the legal driving limit of 0.08. Minick, a lifelong friend of Jim Harbaugh who was one of the coach’s first hires at Michigan and even teamed up with Harbaugh to assist two women in a car accident in March, pleaded guilty to operating a vehicle while intoxicated and refusing a breathalyzer test on June 24. He received eight months of probation and a $1,325 fine. “He made a life terrible mistake,” Hackett said. “He dealt with something that can kill people. People die, either himself or others, from what happened. So the gravity of it was not dismissed at all.”

Despite the resignation offer, Hackett felt Minick could improve after his mistake. Even after Harbaugh — who was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in 2005 — requested Hackett take a second look, Hackett saw an opportunity for improvement. “(Harbaugh) wanted to make sure he was being objective,” Hackett said. “The coach has no margin for error in judgment when people understand they’ve gotten a break, and now they have to prove their commitment. We’ve got a really tight alignment on what the standard is moving forward. “You have one of two ways you can

“This is a guy who will learn from his mistake.”

go, you either get manipulated by people who make mistakes and they can con you into being compassionate,” Hackett said. “If you’re compassionate, you get people who unexpectedly are surprised by that and then they become better employees.” So far, outcry about Hackett’s decision has been minimal. The interim athletic director has received three letters expressing disapproval, but Hackett has responded to all three letters with the same justification. “We deal compassionately with people who make mistakes, we’re not setting different standards,” Hackett said. “(It’s) more about what I need to do to get him back on his feet. This is not a guy who has had a serial problem, and even then I would’ve given him a deep consideration, but that’s not the narrative here. This is a one-time mistake that was made.”

Catching up with NFL LB Brandon Graham By ZACH SHAW Summer Managing Sports Editor

On Saturday, former All-American, Big Ten MVP and first-round draft pick Brandon Graham will host his first-ever youth camp in his hometown Detroit. Like many of the camps he has volunteered at for his NFL peers, the linebacker aims to bring out the community in a fun-for-all event. Last month, the Daily sat down with the Eagles’ linebacker to discuss his camp, hometown and, of course, Jim Harbaugh. The Michigan Daily: You see a lot of NFL players at camps, volunteering their time. what’s the draw from an athlete’s perspective? Brandon Graham: “Just seeing the kids have fun, giving back, just to see their faces light up when they see people like us, that’s not that far away from where we are now. It’s just a blessing to be able to come back, see the kids and have some fun.” TMD: You’re from Detroit, an area that Michigan tries to

work with a lot both in and out of sports, how important is that connection with the community? BG: “That’s the biggest thing about being here in Ann Arbor, you want to have a connection with Detroit, because this is your home. They’re going to be the guys that come and make this University better, so you better make sure that you can connect with them. “We can relate to a lot of the things they’re saying because we know the area and a bit of what they go through. You might have gone to the same schools or know some of the same people. The conversation and connection is there because you’re from the same place. You feel right at home. “I think with (Michigan coach Jim) Harbaugh being here and everyone helping to get that connection, it’s going to help a lot of people by building that relationship. That’s the start of it, having stuff down there, people up here go down there, people down there come up here, just enjoy each other and keep building.” TMD: You’re starting your

own event this year, what’s special about your camp? BG: “It’s called Select 100, and it’s 100 boys and 100 girls. I wanted to make girls a part of it SAM MOUSIGIAN/Daily because obviFormer Michigan lnebacker Brandon Graham finished second in school history in tackles for loss and sacks. ously you see a lot of dudes at these camps, but been pretty vocal about your I think Harbaugh is really going to there’s not much that the girls support for Harbaugh and this develop the guys and get the maxican do. So what I wanted to do is year’s team. What have you seen mum out of each guy.” bring in half and half for girls and from the outside that has you so TMD: You were a part of boys. We built an obstacle course excited? some successful and unsuccessfor the girls to go though, and then ful teams at Michigan. What we’re going to finish with the girls BG: “The energy, it’s all about advice would you give this team by introducing them to yoga and the energy. I’d heard about Har- if they’re trying to win a champipromote anti-bullying, teamwork, baugh when I was in the league onship and establish Michigan’s confidence building for everyone. and how he was there and at dominance again? Stanford, and everyone says he’s a It’s going to be a good time, great coach. I just can’t wait to see “Just stay together, make sure man. I’ve never seen a camp like it show up at Michigan, because when things get rough that you’re this with girls involved, and I we sure need a spark. staying together. That’s when you wanted to do something different really find out how good your team than what everyone else has.” “You can just see by the recruit- is, when you’ve got a little advering. I think we’ve got the players sity or teams might start to break TMD: Switching gears, you’ve now that’re going to be good, and up, you’ve got to stay together.”

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the job, or pass it on to the next candidate. ***

Fan approval of the Athletic Department is evidenced by decade-high ticket interest and sales, but Hackett knows the circumstances behind both his arrival — when he replaced the resigning Brandon in November — and decisionmaking don’t indicate a successful longterm future. “When I came here, (University President Mark Schlissel) had been on the job I think eight weeks,” Hackett said. “There was a sea of problems (at Michigan) that weren’t just athletics, but a lot of transitional pieces going around. In the midst of that, we’ve got the football program and I thought ‘With all that, the things you would need to know about somebody to make a decision of their permanence, we bypassed.’ “So it would be like a forced marriage, and what’s the probability that that’s going to live like my 39 years of marriage? So I said to the President, ‘If you’re OK, I’d like to put that off until we both think it needs more attention.’ ” Hackett has asked Schlissel to meet with him after the president returns from China, and

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has at least three more major projects that he isn’t ready to announce yet. His mind isn’t made up about the future, but thanks to an enhanced support staff, it doesn’t have to be. “You almost want the thing running better almost as if you weren’t there, because it means everyone around you is stronger,” Hackett said. “I want you to think about empowerment and growth as a virtue I get to bring to the organization. If the day I leave everyone says, ‘He asked us to do more and we were better,’ I’d be happy with a report card like that.”

“I’ve got more issues to tackle, so I’m focused on that.”

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Interim Athletic Director Jim Hackett has no plans to leave Michigan yet, but is still hesitant to become a permanant employee.

Hackett unsure of future, but confident in game plan Despite strong fan support, interim athletic director hesitant to commit By ZACH SHAW Summer Managing Sports Editor

After firing Brady Hoke, hiring Jim Harbaugh and landing a reported record-high apparel deal with Nike, most Michigan fans would happily let Interim Athletic Director Jim Hackett drop the ‘Interim’ part of his title and simply take the job. But just like all the decisions he has made at the position, Hackett is happy to take all the time he needs to make sure his decision on his future, whatever it is, is the right one. “I’m not there yet,” Hackett said on Tuesday. “I know it sounds funny to you, but there’s no hidden thing. It’s working, so why mess with it? “Right now, I’ve got more

issues to tackle, so I’m focused on that.” Hackett’s patience is a luxury afforded by a support staff that now includes former Oregon State Athletic Director Bob De Carolis. De Carolis — a former Michigan softball coach and athletics administrator from 19791998 — has retired to Ann Arbor after 17 years at Oregon State, and is serving as a senior advisor with no intentions of becoming the next Athletic Director at Michigan. De Carolis is helping out with day-to-day tasks, such as ongoing construction at Michigan’s athletic campus, and is a part of a team of experienced assistants and advisors Hackett is delegating expanded leadership roles to. “We have very clear ownership of aspects within the organization,” Hackett said. “It’s a little different than (predecessor Dave Brandon’s). I have a smaller team working for me, but they have bigger jobs.” “They pray I don’t manage the day-to-day,” he added with a grin. “What we have is a perfect

“There’s no hidden thing. It’s working, so why mess it up?”

fit for my style.” The system, as Hackett explained it to reporters on Tuesday, is what he called a ‘Point-of-View’ process. Essentially, whenever a task or problem arises, whichever employee has the most experience in handling the issue will take control, sometimes even giving orders to Hackett. The result, according to Hackett, is an increased ownership and devotion to the tasks, along with visible acuity to the issue at hand. “I’m not saying I’m above it all or distant, it’s just finding where is the best use of my time. Bill Gates used to use a phrase call ‘Bill Dollars,’ because where do you want to spend Bill Dollars over the course of the day in Microsoft? “Where do you want to spend Jim Hackett’s time? Where can we get the most leverage from him, and what are his skills and gifts? There’s a lot of that around me that is much better handled by (fellow employees).” But the elephant in the room remains. Eventually, Hackett will have to take ownership of

“It would be like a forced marriage.”

BY THE NUMBERS Jim Hackett

1977

Year Hackett graduated. He was the center on the football team and teammates with Dave Brandon

$175

Cost of season tickets next fall, far lower than the $295 price tag under Brandon.

Years he worked for Steelcase Furniture, serving as CEO for 20 of those years.

Coaching hires made so far by Hackett (football coach Jim Harbaugh).

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Thursday, July 9, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

Just did it: Nike, Michigan agree on record contract Adidas, Under Armour also offered record money, but Nike won in number of test fields. By ZACH SHAW Summer Managing Sports Editor

Jim Hackett knew as soon as he took the keys as Interim Athletic Director that Michigan’s pending apparel deal would be one of his biggest decisions on the job. He also knew that the school he worked for would have power in such a deal, but it wasn’t until a rival Athletic Director spelled it out to him that he realized just what kind of machine he was driving. “ ‘I just want to set your mind in the right context, Michigan is one of the most valuable brands,’ – and he paused – ‘in sports,’ ” Hackett recalled his colleague saying. “ ‘I’m talking about auto racing, golf, baseball, NFL, NBA … the Michigan brand, Jim, is one of the most valuable assets in sports.’ “I had a lot of pride hearing that, but it really got me to think what does the most valuable brand in sports deserve?” As negotiations progressed, Hackett would find out that Michigan’s potential partners were thinking about that too. According to Hackett, Adidas, Nike and Under Armour all offered Michigan the largest apparel contract in the country. Full financial details are expected to be released as soon as next week, but currently the largest contract is Notre Dame’s 10-year, $90 million deal with Under Armour. But with all three companies

offering similarly substantial sums, Hackett insists that the decision to go with Nike was not solely a financial one. “(Being the largest contract) was never in any stated goal of where we are or what we wanted,” Hackett said. “In your exposure to the firm, from visits and meeting with leadership, you learn there’s a lot of value in different ways than money.” In an extensive process that began in February, Michigan sought to turn over every stone in research to not only pick a winner, but also prove that winner right to any naysayers. A giant board with “investigative lanes” including pages upon pages of market research, performance evaluations, fan, player and alumni feedback and analytics filled an entire room in the athletic department. And as the room filled, so did Hackett’s confidence in his final decision. “In the end it was obvious that it was going to be Nike,” Hackett said. “I found myself in the position where I could not argue the decision of picking them. Early on you could make the argument; there were some really good competitors in this mix.” With a bidding war larger than any other in the history of college athletics, Hackett and his team sought to challenge all three companies beyond their wallets. Among those challenges was a 15-year plan, highlighting Hackett’s focus on the long-term success of the deal. “I was looking for the future,” Hackett said. “It didn’t matter that Nike was really successful here in the past, it didn’t matter

“(Being the largest contract) was never a stated goal.”

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Nike’s signature swoosh will grace Michigan’s athletic campus beginning in August 2016 after being the main supplier from 1994-2007.

that Under Armour had invented a wicking system no one else had, it didn’t matter that Adidas had this global dominance, we’re signing a new 15-year deal. “I said to each one of them ‘I want to be ahead, not just a fast follower, I want be ahead of everyone out there.’ We gave each of them a challenge in that regard, and Nike did the best job.” Nike’s eye on the future was nice, but would not have resulted in a deal had it not been for its current standing. More then tripling the revenue of Adidas and Under Armour combined at $11.2 billion, Hackett found it to be far and away the leader in athletic apparel. More importantly to Hackett, however, was Nike’s standing as a market leader in the eyes of coaches, athletes, alumni and fans. In dozens of formal and informal discussions, students and student athletes informed Hackett of their sentiments. Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh revealed his preference for the brand his second day on campus. Michigan alums playing in the pros — some of whom played for the Wolverines during Nike’s

“What does the most valuable brand in sports deserve?”

previous contract with Michigan from 1994-2007 — also voiced their opinions. The overwhelming majority supported Nike. “That voice really came through,” Hackett said. “I was delighted that they loved the University that much, that they really care about the decision now and want us to be great.” It took four months to make the call, but by suspending all biases, Hackett learned not only how powerful the Michigan brand was, but that Nike is exactly what one of the most valuable brands in sports deserves. “I can’t exaggerate enough that we suspended our decision as long as we could to make the right one,” Hackett said. “We’re really excited for what the future holds.”

“I want to be ahead of everyone out there.”

Nike Facts - The contract commences August 1, 2016 and runs to 2027 with a University of Michigan option to extend the deal to 2031 - Nike will supply all 31 Michigan athletic programs with uniforms, footwear, apparel and equipment - Financial details will be available the week of July 13, 2015 - Michigan and Nike will collaborate throughout the agreement on innovation initiatives in sports technology, design and best practices. Included in the partnership are student internships at Nike headquarters - The agreement includes use of the Jordan Brand “Jumpman” apparel for men’s and women’s basketball - Fans will be able to purchase officially licensed Michigan gear produced by Nike starting August 1, 2016.

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